8 May 2015

Angler Marc from the USA spend a couple of days GT Popping with us aboard Bite Me Too hoping to land his first ever GT. After a few smaller to mid-sized fish his Cubera got monstered...

Marc reports:

"That last day turned out to be the most rewarding fishing experience I've had.

Steady
rain. Heavy at times, but a pleasant temperature. Relatively calm.
High Tide. Conditions were perfect. Third cast of the trip, three rips
of the popper and all I see is a giant gray shadow come out of the
water totally engulfing the popper. The fight was on as the fish struck
at the end of a very long cast. Drag screaming. Sikeli was an amazing captain, immediately maneuvering the boat away
from the reef as I did battle. I 've caught plenty of big fish, but
none with the brute strength of a GT. Unbelievable. The drag of my
Stella 18,000 was locked all the way and the fish was still able to take
line with ease."

The GT Short Length measured a whopping 132cm (52 inches) and was caught on a Heru El-Toro.

The fish was released unharmed although the popper took a bit of a beating !

The Wahoo will continue to be our main target species for the next two months as well as Sailfish along the outer barrier reef. We expect to still have great winter fishing well into October. With the water temp now hovering just above 24 anglers fishing offshore should also see some Striped Marlin and short billed Spearfish.

14 Jul 2014

We are now well out of the normal summer GT Popping season and the Trades have started to push in but so far the weather has been reasonably cooperative - So much so that we are still throwing Poppers and seeing some nice GTs.

The big story for the next few months of course will be the winter Wahoo run. With the water temp now hitting 26C the Wahoo are starting to gather along the Great Astrolabe Barrier Reef. We expect a good season this year with Wahoo being caught as early as May and the first few Pacific Sailfish also showing. The Wahoo packs should grow to average 25-30 fish with an average size of around 60lbs.

27 Apr 2014

We have been delighted to once again welcome the IGFA Anglers Digest TV film crew to Matava Resort and Bite Me Gamefishing Charters. Show Host Bill Boyce was here a few years ago in the winter time for some insane wahoo & Sailfish action fishing with BlueWater Magazine Editor Tim Simpson. Bill set the new M-04 Fiji National Record for Pacific Sailfish and both Bill and Tim landed IGFA World Record Wahoo with Tim's fish just edging out Bills for the current M-04 World Record.

Tim Simpson's M-04 IGFA World Record

This time around Bill and the team visited during the summer for some GT Popping, deep-water jigging and some summer species trolling and fished aboard our brand new 30ft custom fast offshore centre console Bite Me Too

Glorious weather and a trip out to the Kadavu Seamount found some nice Dogtooth Tuna on jigs, plenty of small Yellowfin and even a couple of marlin bites.

A nice Doggie caught jigging for guest angler Mike

Why they call them Dogtooth Tuna !

We even had a few nice early season Wahoo !
You can see the new show coming soon on the World Fishing Network or see some great sample video clips (some filmed aboard Bite Me) here : http://www.anglersdigest.tv/videos.html

26 Feb 2014

Skipper Joe took angler Boyang Zhang out for some deep-water jigging last week aboard the new boat Bite Me Too. Great weather meant ideal jigging conditions and Boyang made the most of it hooking up and landing a 19.6kg Albacore setting a new M-36 Fiji National Record.

That's a monster Albacore !

The very distinctive Pectoral fins on an Albacore

A very good Fiji Record catch for Boyang and of course - very good eating for all the other guests at Matava Resort !

14 Feb 2014

Last week skipper Joeli took angler Kenneth from Singapore out for some GT Popping on the brand new GT boatBite Me Too.
Using a Dogfight 6500 on a Carpenter Blue Lagoon and GT Mania lure, Kenneth fought a huge GT for over 25 minutes until Joe could finally grab the leader.

The fish measured 57 Inches (short length) smashing the current IGFA All-Tackle Length World Record however, because of the long fight, Kenneth elected to snap one quick photo and get the GT back in the water as soon as possible. Joe swam the fish for 5 minutes before a healthy release....
Nice one guys, commendable !

8 Jan 2014

The new boatBite Me Too went into action with Joe skippering taking out Peter & Sophie from Australia for a bit of trolling, GT Popping and Jigging on a couple of half days.

Peter came with the right GT Tackle

First GT !

A nice Bluefin Trevally for Sophie

A bigger GT for Peter

A little doggie caught trolling

Peter jigged up a bigger Dogtooth Tuna

Just to keep the other Resort guests happy.....Dinner !

The Yellowfin Tuna are now starting to move in with several big schools close in to the outer Barrier Reef. Still around the 20-40lb size but the big cow Yellowfin won't be far behind.
We still have openings for bookings in March / April and Matava Resort has some crazy Accommodation Specials available so drop us a line here !

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